Kitchen Garden
Heide’s much-loved Kitchen Garden was created by Heide founders John and Sunday Reed in the 1960s as an accompaniment to their modernist home, Heide II, designed by acclaimed architects McGlashan and Everist.
This popular attraction was originally a ‘working garden' supplying vegetables, herbs and fruit for meals prepared by Sunday, an innovative cook.
The garden is fully enclosed to protect it from marauding animals as well as the repercussions of extreme weather. Ravaged by floods, even during recent years, Heide’s gardeners have maintained the historical plantings in the garden as well as returning the lower section to rotating crops of vegetables.
Sunday Reed’s great love of roses continues in the many plantings at the head of each garden bed. The upper section of the garden, set on higher ground, is also dedicated to cascading fragrant roses, perennials and herbs – Achillea, Evening Primrose, Helenium, Eucomis (Pineapple Lily), a wide range of Salvia, Sunday’s much loved blue iris and along the top fence, an impressive stand of Dahlia imperialis (Tree Dahlia).
The paths throughout the garden were re-laid, including new wooden borders, during Heide's 2005-06 Redevelopment Program.
The restoration work has extended to Heide’s Rose Walk which was originally installed in 1988 by then Head Gardener, Simon Dickeson. Adjacent to the Kitchen Garden, the walk includes some of Sunday Reed’s favourite flowering plants, including Rosa mutablis and blue iris.
The Rose Walk Pavilion dates from 1991 and marks the transition from Rose Walk to the paddock (now part of the Connie Kimberley Sculpture Park). The pavilion, designed by architect, Gregory Burgess, was acknowledged in 1995 with the Kevin Borland Timber in Architecture Award.
